Dad was left at home...(emmicks landing ?)
so he slipped away (did go right away?) help drivin (kentucky-Tennesse?)
measles (Dec. 1865?) henry left him at abandon tobacco warehouse hospital
week later got small pox (Jan 1865) corpses on frozen ground
recovered, slept at river wharf (must be on river) cotton bales (warm summer climate to grow)
stowed away on river barge (barge?, river boat, not steam?) not found till well under way
put ashore at first chance ,not far from home and could just walk the distance (<20 miles to Emmicks Landing?)
left sometime summer 1864
summer / fall / winter driving supplies in Ky & Tenn (1865)
winter small pox
near river at least end and start
within approx 150 miles of Landing
tobacco warehouses
small pox outbreak
cotton bales & river barges
end of war?
Henry Ranch: 1880 at Souix City
Jan 1864 in Richmond
Jan 8, 1864, command of Army of Western Virginia and Tennesse
May 30, 1864 attacks supplies in Kentucky
June 8, 1864 robs bank at Mount Sterling for $18,000
June12 defeated at Cythiana Ky and flees to Abington Va
Most of Morgans men flea west to join Forrest
June 20 1864, arrives Abington Va
early July 1864- letter to Witcher to send scout to Kentucky
Sept 4, 1864: killed at Greeneville, Tenn by attack by General A C Gillem
Amick 7/25/63
J.Ayers 7/25/63 (also on pow list)
J.C Bell 7/25/63 (not on letter)
Z P Carder (7/25/63) ( Moccasin rangers??...whats that?)
MV Sheppard (7/25/63, also POW ilist)
Amick/Ayers/Sheppard on pow list in 61-62
In June, 1864, Captain Hines opened negotiations with the OSL. Primary targets in the new action plan was again Johnson�s Island and also Camp Morton at Indianapolis and Camp Douglas at Chicago. In addition the Union prison and arsenal at Rock Island, Illinois, was to be secured. After Confederate prisoners were released and provided with weapons from the arsenal Louisville, Kentucky, would be attacked and secured for the Northwestern Confederacy. The Kentucky river city was an important stronghold of the Union. A rising would cause, so was intended, Grant to relax his pressure on Petersburg and Sherman would have been forced to come to the aid of Federal forces in the northwest. The rising, first set for July and then August, 1864, was to be aided by a raid by General Nathan Bedford Forrest into Kentucky. On an earlier raid in that state Forrest had left officers and men to aid the coming uprising. It did not, however, take place and a new plan to be set in action before the November, 1864, elections failed because Federal spies had been infiltrated into the OSL.